TEXAS MEXICAN RY. CO. v. BOUCHET

No. 96-0194.

963 S.W.2d 52 (1998)

The TEXAS MEXICAN RAILWAY COMPANY, Petitioner, v. Lawrence P. BOUCHET, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Decided February 13, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard H. Bucklin, Corpus Christi, Donato D. Ramos, Laredo, W. Wendell Hall, Renee A. Forinash, San Antonio, Guy H. Allison, Corpus Christi, for Petitioner.

Robert E. Valdez, Linda L. Daniels, San Antonio, for Respondent.


ABBOTT, Justice, delivered the opinion of the Court, in which PHILLIPS, Chief Justice, GONZALEZ, HECHT, ENOCH, OWEN, BAKER and HANKINSON, Justices, join.

The issue in this case is whether employers that are nonsubscribers to the Texas Workers' Compensation Act can be sued for acts of discrimination that violate Texas Revised Civil Statute article 8307c. Because we hold that they cannot, we reverse the judgment of the court of appeals and render judgment that Bouchet...

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